US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Aug. 25 for "Surface tap and touch localization using thermal sensors" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,446, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Surface tap and touch localization using thermal sensors" was invented by Karan Ahuja (Seattle) and Mar Gonzalez Franco (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a pose of a portion of a user relative to a surface. The surface is associated with a virtual interface generated by a device worn by the user. The method further includes receiving thermal data indicating contact between the portion of the user and a portion of the surface. The method further includes determining a location of the contact relative to the virtual interfac...